sight
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A gun's rear sight and a musket side plate found nearby offer some support for that interpretation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The sight of the centre-backs standing tall, studs on the ball, waiting for the opposition forwards to become impatient before closing them down felt unnatural but it was purposeful.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
An opening sequence in a bank lobby introduces Statham’s Cole as having hyper-sensory awareness of sight and sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Thomas picked the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sight unseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
How there could have been any pleasure in the sight of these stick-thin legs and hunger-bloated stomachs I could not imagine.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The city is grandiose enough that there are even ways for filmmakers to put their own spin on its more conventional sights and sounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But this latest grinding crisis has transformed the sights, sounds and smells of Old Havana entirely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
So what's the 22-year-old got his sights set on now?
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Bobbie now has its sights set on expanding beyond formula to become a broader brand for new parents, said Andrade-Wells, who reports to Modi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
They kept the silver building in their sights, following a side street that led directly to Mirror Tech.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
The Pakistani navy published an alert Friday warning that a mine had been sighted in the strait off Oman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Shortly after noon on March 17, about 170 miles off the coast of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, crew members said they sighted a blue boat in the distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
And basically, they integrated sighted children so they could be part of the community and help out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
After D-Day, with B-25s sighted over Salonika, Doundoulakis met one of his neighbors on the street: “Helias, do you see?” he cried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
His mother has sighted us and hurries over.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
The change is dramatic: ship-based surveys in the region did not record a single humpback whale sighting there until 2006.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eager cruise passengers zipping around New York's southern shores rush to the starboard bow: a humpback whale is up for air, a breathtaking sighting set against Manhattan's iconic skyline.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
She wasn’t about to bungle the sighting for her client, a photographer who’d flown to Africa for this exact moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Hammerhead sharks typically prefer warmer waters than those found in Southern California, and the last sighting near the coast was over a decade ago, according to the iNaturalist species-sighting database.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The con jumps and Natalie’s smile, like some kind of rare bird sighting, slips away.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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